442. New power and new prestige, this will be the brand-new version of the game you haven't played - [Added 9/25]

After Lady Adel's report had concluded, a new post quietly appeared on the forum.

Although it retained the style of an official post, it was not a formal update or a live hotfix but rather a "gameplay operation announcement" released under the name of Administrator Alpha, akin to material distribution.

Its format was well-crafted:

[Shadow Intelligence Bureau summarized report on the assessment of threats from Transia factions to the Polluted Swamp:

While the whole of Transia was busy with internal development and preparing for the Black Disaster, a sinister and dangerous force was surreptitiously rising in unseen places, with their evil minions creeping out of the shadows, lurking beneath the muck, eyeing the sunlit world hungrily.

As time passed, they were no longer content to curse Transia from their dark domains, and had adopted a more aggressive plan of action.

This meant a new storm had started to brew, and the fierce winds of war were calling warriors to the battlefield!